AIRPORT CHOICE--AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

As a determinant of the air passenger's choice of airport, ground accessibility plays a more dominant role than air carrier level-of-service. Thus, the use of differential flight frequencies as a policy level to shift air passengers from one airport to another would have only limited potential. These conclusions are based upon an empirical study of air passengers' choice of airport in which a series of multinomial logit models were calibrated using air passenger survey data. These models relate the probability that a given airport will be selected to measures of ground accessibility and air carrier level-of-service associated with each available departure airport. A variety of measures for ground accessibility and air carrier level-of-service were tested in various combinations in models which consistently performed will from a statistical standpoint and in which the ground access measure was consistently the dominant variable.

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  American Society of Civil Engineers

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• Authors:
  • Skinner, R E
• Publication Date: 1976-11

Media Info

• Serial:
  • Journal of Transportation Engineering
  • Volume: 102
  • Issue Number: TE4
  • Publisher: American Society of Civil Engineers
  • ISSN: 0733-947X
  • Serial URL: https://ascelibrary.org/journal/jtepbs

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airlines; Airport access; Calibration; Landside capacity; Level of service; Mathematical models; Mode choice; Policy; Statistics
• Uncontrolled Terms: Models
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Data and Information Technology; Policy; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00155716
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Sep 20 1977 12:00AM